Donnie Wah Brown was born in Texas and he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1927. 

Underage at the time, Private Brown served just over six months with Company A, 10th Cavalry, before an honorable discharge as a minority. 
Undeterred, Brown reenlisted in the army in 1929 and accompanied his cavalry regiment to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. 

Brown retired in 1953 with the rank of master sergeant and made his home in El Paso. Brown's military service spanned World War II, Korea, and early racial desegregation of the armed forces. 

He was the last resident Buffalo Soldier living in the city when he died on June 1. 

Brown was buried in Fort Bliss National Cemetery (Section O, Site 1878) - the tenth Buffalo Soldier interred there.

His widow established a chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers in his honor in El Paso.

DONNIE WAH BROWN

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